The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Georgia
- Level
- Court
- Authority
- O.C.G.A. § 38-3-60 et seq.
- Issued
- 2020-03-14 Mar. 14, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-14 through 2020-04-13 (initial term) (read as 2020-03-14)
- End
- Extended by successive orders through June 30, 2021 (extension chain not read here) (read as 2021-06-30)
- In force
- Mar. 14, 2020 to June 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Courts and public offices
- Addressees
- all courts and clerk's offices in the State
- the bar
- Functions reached
- CT litigation, probate, real estate closings dependent on clerk's offices
- Collection
- Professional and Information Services SEC-12
Operative words
HEREBY ORDER AND DECLARE a Statewide Judicial Emergency in the State of Georgia... affecting all courts and clerk's offices in the State... To the extent feasible, courts should remain open to address essential functions... the undersigned hereby suspends, tolls, extends, and otherwise grants relief from any deadlines or other time schedules or filing requirements
Enforcement
Notes
Jury trials suspended statewide from March 2020; grand juries resumed in stages from Oct. 2020;
Retrieval noteThe exhibit is the amended order as posted in March 2020.